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Posts tagged with 'netherlands' and 'Amsterdam' at MetaFilter.Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:17:27 -0800Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:17:27 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Style Out Therehttp://www.metafilter.com/155106/Style%2DOut%2DThere
Asha Leo of Refinery29 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">travels around the world to learn about international fashion subcultures and the way fashion affects society worldwide</a>. So far she's met <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV3OtzUwcPg&index=1&list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">Gothic (and other) Lolitas in Amsterdam</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrhbO03yPSE&index=2&list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">Moroccan expat culture</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgw7M-JABMg&index=3&list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">hijra in India</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD-es0bNxfw&index=4&list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">Hasidic designers in Brooklyn</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knYb8E9ohCw&index=5&list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">Korean matchy-matchy fashion for couples</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WblNctc3ys0&index=6&list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_-L45yq0GSqbKV3LySGFjO">the highly colorful world of Japanese decora</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.155106Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:17:27 -0800divabatThe Smartest Building in the Worldhttp://www.metafilter.com/153578/The%2DSmartest%2DBuilding%2Din%2Dthe%2DWorld
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-the-edge-the-worlds-greenest-building/">Inside the connected future of architecture.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.153578Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:42:29 -0800ellieBOAAccounting by, and for, the Dutchhttp://www.metafilter.com/140430/Accounting%2Dby%2Dand%2Dfor%2Dthe%2DDutch
<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/07/the-vanished-grandeur-accounting/3zcbRBoPDNIryWyNYNMvbO/story.html">The Vanished Grandeur Of Accounting</a>, in which Jacob Soll argues that it was the <a href="http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4329&context=theses">Dutch</a>, and certainly not the <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/book/review/double-entry-venice-modern-finance-accounting-jane-gleeson-white">Venetians or Florentines</a> who are responsible for <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=n4vdccLtgs8C&lpg=PA4&ots=0xuK-fbrGF&dq=dutch%20flemish%20venetian%20finance%20accounting%20history&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false">the spread of</a> that <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/no-accounting-skills-no-moral-reckoning/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0">moral and mathematical</a> <a href="http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.com/hautcoeur-pierre-cyrille/M1_histoireeco/Gelderblom-Jonker_revolutionAmsterdam.pdf">revolution</a>: <a href="http://www.quickmba.com/accounting/fin/double-entry/">double-entry accounting</a>. <a href="http://abeautifulbook.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/bread-butter-and-bookkeeping/">Bread, Butter and Bookkeeping</a> <blockquote>European urban civilization as we know does not find its roots in London or Paris, let alone in Berlin, but in three relatively small cities, all ports, all energetic, individualistic, and outward-looking places. These cities, in the chronology of their commercial and creative flourishing, were Venice, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. In each of these cities a strong tradition of printing developed and they all produced outstanding printers, Aldus in Venice, Plantin in Antwerp, and the Blaeu family in Amsterdam. That is no coincidence. Creativity – interpreted in the widest possible sense – and cosmopolitanism go hand in hand.</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140430Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:57:45 -0800the man of twists and turns880,000http://www.metafilter.com/129296/880000
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/world/europe/a-sea-of-bikes-swamps-amsterdam-a-city-fond-of-pedaling.html?hp&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all">There are too many bicycles in Amsterdam.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129296Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:12:25 -0800four panelsRijksmuseum remixhttp://www.metafilter.com/121433/Rijksmuseum%2Dremix
The<a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en"> Rijksmuseum</a> in Amsterdam, home to Rembrandt's <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-C-5"><em>The Night Watch</em></a> and Vermeer's<a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-2344"> <em>The Milkmaid</em></a>, among many other masterpieces,<a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio"> today unveiled the Rijksstudio</a>, 125,000 digitized images of its collections, available in a zoomable interface online or as high-resolution public-domain downloads (account creation required for the latter). tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121433Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:27:13 -0800Horace Rumpole"A handbag?!"http://www.metafilter.com/102612/A%2Dhandbag
What MeFite doesn't like a good <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Museums-With-Their-Own-Niche.html">niche museum</a>? We've had posts about the great overview site <a href="http://www.coudal.com/moom/">Museum of Museums</a> [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/19998/The-LSD-Blotter-Art-Gallery">previously</a>], Patrick Acton's Matchstick Marvels [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/100945/420000-matchsticks">previously</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/54788/Hogwarts-in-Matchsticks">previously</a>], cat museums [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/35785/Museum-Cats">previously</a>] and even a mention of <a href="http://velveteria.com">Velvetaria, the Museum of Velvet Painting</a> [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/74075/and-that-little-boys-smile-with-that-slow-southern-style#2217930">previously</a>] - sadly now closed, awaiting new digs. I'd like to add a new one. May I present <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/home">The Hendrikje Museum of Handbags and Purses</a>? Located in Amsterdam, it houses the <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/home/permanent-collection/highlights">world's largest collection</a>, so you can thoroughly <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/permanent-collection/timeline">track the evolution of the purse</a> from 1420 via <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/permanent-collection/shapes">oddities</a> through to <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/permanent-collection/designer-bags">obscenely expensive designer bags</a> and the latest in <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/permanent-collection/contemporary-designers">contemporary offerings</a>. And then enjoy a <a href="http://www.tassenmuseum.nl/en/special-visits/afternoon-tea">cream tea</a>.
The Netherlands has <a href="http://www.ogrogon.nl/Kleine%20Musea/kleinmus.htm">more niche goodies</a> outside the capital, including a <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jenevermuseum.nl%2F">museum of gin</a> - the drink genever, not the game - and a <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=bonami-spelcomputer-museum.nl&sl=nl&tl=en">computer games museum</a>, now apparently with Happy May - Vacation Offering! tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102612Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:21:52 -0800likeso10 years of cheese-eating, clog-wearing, tulip-loving, same-sex marriagehttp://www.metafilter.com/102041/10%2Dyears%2Dof%2Dcheeseeating%2Dclogwearing%2Dtuliploving%2Dsamesex%2Dmarriage
<a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/ten-years-same-sex-marriage-a-mixed-blessing">1 April 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage (<em>homohuwelijk</em>) in the Netherlands.</a> Although Denmark was the first country to recognize same-sex unions (called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_unions_in_Denmark">registered partnerships</a> and legalized in 1989), the Netherlands was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/04/01/world/main283071.shtml">the first country</a> to make same-sex civil marriages legally equal to civil marriages between couples of the opposite sex.
This was done by changing <a href="http://www.wetboek-online.nl/wet/Burgerlijk%20Wetboek%20Boek%201.html">Book 1 of the <em>Burgerlijk Wetboek</em></a><sup>[NL]</sup> (the Dutch Civil Code) via a bill called the <a href="http://www.eerstekamer.nl/wetsvoorstel/26672_wet_openstelling_huwelijk"><em>Wet Openstelling huwelijk</em></a><sup>[NL]</sup>. This bill modified <a href="http://www.wetboek-online.nl/wet/Burgerlijk%20Wetboek%20Boek%201/30.html">Article 30</a><sup>[NL]</sup> of the Civil Code, which now reads: <em>Een huwelijk kan worden aangegaan door twee personen van verschillend of van gelijk geslacht.</em> This <a href="http://translate.google.com/#nl|en|Een%20huwelijk%20kan%20worden%20aangegaan%20door%20twee%20personen%20van%20verschillend%20of%20van%20gelijk%20geslacht.">translates</a> to: <em>A marriage can be contracted by two persons of different or the same sex.</em>
The bill was championed by people such as <a href="http://www.henkkrol.nl/index.php">Henk Krol</a><sup>[NL]</sup>, founder of gay magazine <a href="http://www.gaykrant.nl/"><em>De Gay Krant</em></a><sup>[NL]</sup>; <a href="http://sxnews.gaynewsnetwork.com.au/feature/boris-dittrich-rights-defender-008617.html">Boris Dittrich</a>, a then-MP who is now the <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/bios/boris-dittrich">Advocacy Director for the Human Rights Watch's LGBT Program</a>; and <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-1254.html/">Job Cohen</a>, then the junior Minister of Justice, and later the mayor of Amsterdam.
The bill passed the <a href="http://www.houseofrepresentatives.nl/">Tweede Kamer</a> (the House of Representatives) with a vote of 109-33, and was approved by the <a href="http://www.eerstekamer.nl/begrip/english_2">Eerste Kamer</a> (the Senate) on 19 December 2000.
The law went into effect on 1 April 2001. At midnight, Mayor Cohen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8-Nz4HeiA&t=5m45s">married four couples</a><sup>[NL, warm-fuzzy-inducing]</sup>:
<ul>
<li>Mr Louis Rogmans and Mr Ton Jansen</li>
<li>Mr Peter Wittebrood-Lemke and Mr Frank Wittebrood</li>
<li>Mr Dolf Pasker and Mr Geert Kasteel</li>
<li><a href="http://www.news.com.au/world/worlds-first-legally-wed-lesbian-couple-celebrates-their-10th-wedding-anniversary/story-e6frfkyi-1226030866529">Ms Helene Faasen and Ms Anne-Marie Thus</a></li>
</ul>
Since then, <a href="http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/03/gay_married_couples_less_likel.php">14,813 same-sex couples have married</a>, making up less than 2% of all Dutch marriages. However, same-sex couples account for only 1% of all divorces.
Only <a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/ten-years-same-sex-marriage-a-mixed-blessing">20% of the 55,000 homosexual couples in the Netherlands are married, as opposed to 80% of the 4.1 million heterosexual couples</a>. Why? It could be because of legal difficulties that same-sex couples face when they want to adopt children.
Like straight couples, more and more gay couples are opting for <a href="http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2011/2011-3331-wm.htm">registered partnerships</a>, which have been an option for couples of any gender since 1998. Unlike a marriage, a <a href="http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/methoden/toelichtingen/alfabet/r/registered-partnership.htm">registered partnership can be annulled without a court decision</a>, along with <a href="https://same-sex.web.ined.fr/pdf/DocTrav125/05Doc125TheNetherlands.pdf">a few other differences</a><sup>[PDF]</sup>, particularly when it comes to parentage.
The <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/10/us-caribbean-islands-idUSTRE69913J20101010">constituent countries</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a>—Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten—<a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/faq-same-sex-marriage">do not allow same-sex marriages</a> to be performed within their borders. However, they must recognize marriages that are registered in the Kingdom, regardless of gender.
The city of Amsterdam will celebrate gay marriage in several ways:
<ul>
<li>On April 1, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_van_der_Laan">Mayor Eberhard van der Laan</a> will marry couples at the <a href="http://en.ahm.nl/">Amsterdam Museum</a> (Kalverstraat 92)</li>
<li>April 2-3 will be the <a href="http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/whats-on/events/april/gay-life">Gay Bride and Gay Life Fairs</a> at the <a href="http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/locations/westergasfabriek/1eee5507-fec7-d39e-e9cba0735ca54b69">Westergasfabriek</a> (Pazzanistraat 4)</li>
<li>All month long, there will be <a href="http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/living/city-of-amsterdam/news/ten-years-same-sex-marriage">an exhibit of family photos</a> at the city hall (Amstel 1) called <a href="http://www.10jaarhomohuwelijk.nl/home_english.html"><em>10 jaar homohuwelijk</em></a></li>
</ul>
If you're in Amsterdam and want to learn about more gay goings-on, you can visit the <a href="http://www.pinkpoint.org/">Pink Point</a> information centre, located next to the <a href="http://www.homomonument.nl/indexen.htm">Homomonument</a> and the <a href="http://www.westerkerk.nl/index.php?page=welkom-en">Westerkerk</a> (around the corner from the <a href="http://www.annefrank.org/">Anne Frank House</a>).
<small>And in somewhat related news, 2011 will be the <a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/dutch-soldiers-uniform-gay-canal-parade-2011">first time that officially-sanctioned, uniformed Dutch soldiers</a> will join Amsterdam's <a href="http://www.amsterdamgaypride.nl/canal_parade/">Gay Pride Canal Parade</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102041Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:48:06 -0800neushoornHow to Enjoy Realityhttp://www.metafilter.com/83255/How%2Dto%2DEnjoy%2DReality
<a href="http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/magic-poet-weed-ambassador-simon.html">Rest</a> in <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trouw.nl%2Fachtergrond%2FNaschrift%2Farticle2813309.ece%2FSimon_Vinkenoog__1928-2009_.html&sl=nl&tl=en&history_state0=">peace</a>, <a href="http://www.simonvinkenoog.nl/">Simon Vinkenoog</a> [Dutch blog w/English option], <a href="http://www.greeninteger.com/pipbios_detail.cfm?PIPAuthorID=1879">poet</a>, friend of artists like <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/may/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1">Karel Appel</a>, <a href="http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/ginsberg-in-charleville-december-1982.html">translator</a> of Beat Generation figures like <a href="http://www.allenginsberg.org">Allen Ginsberg</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCF6hgEfto">Jack Kerouac</a>, psychedelic enthusiast and "weed ambassador" of Amsterdam, and author of such guides to hip living as <i>How to Enjoy Reality</i>. One of the European <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uBlBExxlvo">jazz-loving proto-hippies</a> who made the '60s swing and mentored several generations of culture hackers, though he was never widely known in the US. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.83255Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:07:29 -0800digamanGoing Dutchhttp://www.metafilter.com/81378/Going%2DDutch
<blockquote>[E]ven if you are unemployed you still receive a base amount of [vacation money] from the government, the reasoning being that if you can't go on vacation, you'll get depressed and despondent and you'll <em>never</em> get a job.<br>[...]
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But does the cartoon image of [the Dutch system] — encapsulated in the dread slur "socialism," which is being lobbed in American political circles like a bomb — match reality? Is there, maybe, a significant upside that is worth exploring? [...] I think it's worth pondering how the best bits might fit.</blockquote>After a year and a half of living in the Netherlands, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">American writer Russell Shorto compares the Dutch "welfare state" to the tax, health care and social security systems of the United States</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.81378Mon, 04 May 2009 07:20:34 -0800goodnewsfortheinsanefreedomhttp://www.metafilter.com/73548/freedom
On a sunny May morning, six plainclothes police officers, two uniformed policemen and a trio of functionaries from the state prosecutor's office closed in on a small apartment in Amsterdam. Their quarry: a skinny Dutch cartoonist with a rude sense of humor. Informed that he was suspected of sketching offensive drawings of Muslims and other minorities, the Dutchman surrendered without a struggle.
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"<a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121581460304047109.html?mod=2_1578_topbox">I never expected the Spanish Inquisition</a>," recalls <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorius_Nekschot">Gregorius Nekschot</a>, the cartoonist. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73548Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:31:15 -0800plexiDe Hermitage Amsterdamhttp://www.metafilter.com/31830/De%2DHermitage%2DAmsterdam
<a href="http://www.hermitage.nl/">De Hermitage Amsterdam.</a> In the early 1990s Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of <a href="http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_0.html">The State Hermitage Museum</a> in St Petersburg was considering the possibility of having satellites of the museum in the West. The <a href="http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/uk/groot/nwkerk.html">Nieuwe Kerk</a> and the Hermitage had already established a strong relationship through the organisation of major exhibitions, and Ernst Veen, director of the Nieuwe Kerk, suggested that Amsterdam would be the<a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/947/features/a_11772.htm"> ideal location</a> for a branch of the Russian museum, given the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great">historical links</a> between the two cities over the past 300 years.<a href="http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/uk/groot/nwkerk.html"></a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31830Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:07:28 -0800the fire you left meactivism - addiction - alien - angel - angst - archeology - archive - beauty - behaviour - biology - body - boredom - brain - chance - civilization - code - community - computer - context - copyhttp://www.metafilter.com/31360/activism%2Daddiction%2Dalien%2Dangel%2Dangst%2Darcheology%2Darchive%2Dbeauty%2Dbehaviour%2Dbiology%2Dbody%2Dboredom%2Dbrain%2Dchance%2Dcivilization%2Dcode%2Dcommunity%2Dcomputer%2Dcontext%2Dcopy
<a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/">This site is edited automatically.</a> Mediamatic, a Dutch inclination toward media and being. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31360Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:05:04 -0800the fire you left meNo smoking in Dutch cafés?http://www.metafilter.com/26054/No%2Dsmoking%2Din%2DDutch%2Dcaf0233s
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2946460.stm">Threat of ban to Dutch cannabis cafés...</a> <br>
It'd be like an airplane without wings! Surely the whole point of buying some weed at these places is to smoke it on the premises? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26054Thu, 29 May 2003 09:05:01 -0800tomcosgrave